Texas Rangers Fans Quickly Forgive Nelson Cruz For World Series Gaffe

After Bill Buckner misplayed a ball in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, he sold his Boston area home and moved his family to Idaho. It's a much different story deep in the heart of Texas for this year's playoff goat.

Nelson Cruz, who misplayed Cardinals third baseman David Freese's Game 6 fly ball into a two-run triple that could have cost the Rangers the world championship, didn't run and hide after the Fall Classic. Cruz drove his own car to Mesquite, Tex., for an appearance at a sports academy less than 24 hours after the World Series.

Despite being the World Series villain in the eyes of some, Cruz drew a crowd of more than 400 fans, who created a line that wrapped around the Academy Sports and Outdoors location. One fan, Mireya Fraire, camped out overnight to be first in line.

"I have a torn ACL and I've been here all night and I haven't gone home and I slept outside and slept in the car and just really want to see him that bad", Fraire told KDAF-TV in Dallas.